Energy conscious mobile device redundancy and recovery

• US 10,545,827 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2017
• Issued: 01/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Krishnamurthy, Rajaram B., Rogers, Daniel A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Amoroso, Anthony J
• Application Number:
  US15/840,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20180101442A1
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/142 Reconfiguring to eliminate the error group management mechanisms in a peer-to-peer network H04L67/1044
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3062 where the monitored property is the power consumption power management in a computing system G06F1/3203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/85 Active fault masking without idle spares
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A tool for redundancy and recovery for a mobile device. Responsive to the mobile device unsuccessfully powering up, the tool activates a recovery functionality via a physical reset switch on the mobile device. Responsive to activating the recovery functionality, the tool scavenges for at least one resource to support a device functionality for the mobile device, wherein scavenging includes siphoning charge from a battery, a processor complex, or a wiring harness within a main module of the mobile device to accumulate sufficient energy to restore and power the one or more features available on the mobile device.

Claims

1. A computer program product for redundancy and recovery for a mobile device, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising;

responsive to the mobile device unsuccessfully powering up, program instructions to activate a recovery functionality via a physical reset switch on the mobile device; and

responsive to activating the recovery functionality, program instructions to scavenge for at least one resource to support a device functionality for the mobile device, wherein scavenging includes siphoning charge from a battery, a processor complex, or a wiring harness within a main module of the mobile device to accumulate sufficient energy to restore and power one or more features available on the mobile device.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprises:

program instructions to diagnose a software functionality for the mobile device, wherein diagnosing the software functionality includes utilizing one or more energy conscious reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) techniques; and

program instructions to diagnose an electrical functionality for the mobile device, wherein diagnosing the electrical functionality includes utilizing one or more energy conscious RAS techniques.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprises:

program instructions to search for one or more malfunctions in one or more devices via a hardwired shadow plane, wherein searching includes utilizing one or more energy conscious RAS techniques.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 further comprises:

program instructions to determine the device functionality for the mobile device from a list of usable components, wherein the device functionality is an energy conscious recovery plan including one or more features available on the mobile device.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein scavenging for at least one resource to support the device functionality for the mobile device, further comprises:

determining, by one or more computer processors, an energy draw for the device functionality, wherein the energy draw is a predictive value of how much energy is required to restore the at least one feature available in the device functionality.

6. The computer program product of claim 1 further comprises:

program instructions to create a list of usable components of the mobile device based, at least in part, on a diagnosis of software functionality, a diagnosis of electrical functionality, and a probing of resources available on the mobile device.

7. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein program instructions to determine the device functionality for the mobile device, further comprises:

program instructions to determine one or more features to include in the device functionality based, at least in part, on one or more energy conscious techniques, the one or more features including one or more of;

an emergency phone call;

a global positioning system; and

a beacon broadcast.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein program instructions to create a list of usable components of the mobile device, further comprises:

program instructions to inventory one or more usable components, wherein inventorying the one or more usable components includes excluding one or more components experiencing a malfunction.

9. A computer system for redundancy and recovery for a mobile device, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more computer readable storage media; and

program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising;

responsive to the mobile device unsuccessfully powering up, program instructions to activate a recovery functionality via a physical reset switch on the mobile device; and

responsive to activating the recovery functionality, program instructions to scavenge for at least one resource to support a device functionality for the mobile device, wherein scavenging includes siphoning charge from a battery, a processor complex, or a wiring harness within a main module of the mobile device to accumulate sufficient energy to restore and power one or more features available on the mobile device.

10. The computer system of claim 9, further comprises:

program instructions to diagnose a software functionality for the mobile device, wherein diagnosing the software functionality includes utilizing one or more energy conscious reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) techniques; and

program instructions to diagnose an electrical functionality for the mobile device, wherein diagnosing the electrical functionality includes utilizing one or more energy conscious RAS techniques.

11. The computer system of claim 9, further comprises:

program instructions to search for one or more malfunctions in one or more devices via a hardwired shadow plane, wherein searching includes utilizing one or more energy conscious RAS techniques.

12. The computer system of claim 9 further comprises:

program instructions to determine the device functionality for the mobile device from a list of usable components, wherein the device functionality is an energy conscious recovery plan including one or more features available on the mobile device.

13. The computer system of claim 9, wherein scavenging for at least one resource to support the device functionality for the mobile device, further comprises:

determining, by one or more computer processors, an energy draw for the device functionality, wherein the energy draw is a predictive value of how much energy is required to restore the at least one feature available in the device functionality.

14. The computer system of claim 9 further comprises:

program instructions to create a list of usable components of the mobile device based, at least in part, on a diagnosis of software functionality, a diagnosis of electrical functionality, and a probing of resources available on the mobile device.

15. The computer system of claim 13, wherein program instructions to determine the device functionality for the mobile device, further comprises:

program instructions to determine one or more features to include in the device functionality based, at least in part, on one or more energy conscious techniques, the one or more features including one or more of;

an emergency phone call;

a global positioning system; and

a beacon broadcast.

16. The computer system of claim 14, wherein program instructions to create a list of usable components of the mobile device, further comprises:

program instructions to inventory one or more usable components, wherein inventorying the one or more usable components includes excluding one or more components experiencing a malfunction.